Facebook Files Lawsuit Over Cloning of Instagram Accounts

The social network accused Ensar Sahinturk of using automation software to scrape users’ publicly visible information

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Facebook filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Thursday aimed at preventing the creation of clone sites.

The social network accused Ensar Sahinturk of using automation software to scrape Instagram users’ publicly visible information and create a network of clone sites, or websites that copy and display profiles, posts and other information from Facebook or Instagram without the knowledge or consent of users.

Director of platform enforcement and litigation Jessica Romero said in a Newsroom post Thursday that Sahinturk scraped over 100,000 Instagram accounts and published data from those accounts on a network of clone sites, where people could enter Instagram usernames to view profiles, pictures, videos, Stories,

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